Racist groups could mar European football championship

EU Observer writes about a new report that presents the prevalence of racism and anti-semitism on the football scene in Poland and Ukraine. As the countries get ready to host the Euro 2012 championships, it seems like between September 2009 and March 2011, fascist symbols and slogans were displayed 56 times in and around football games in Poland and 51 times in Ukraine.

The study is made by the Warsaw-based Never Again and the Kiev-situated Football Against Prejudices groups and was published on April 2011.

East Europe Monitoring Centre: Hateful, monitoring racism, discrimination and hate crime in the Ukrainian and Polish football 2009 - 2011 http://www.farenet.org/resources/Hateful_monitoring_report.pdf

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